Play Impressive Bass Grooves & Wicked Bass Lines Bass Guitar Secrets - Accelerate your progress on the Bass and flatten your learning curve!

1. Pick any note on any string, preferably within the first 3 or 4 frets. Then play a major scale going up on one string following the pattern of whole steps and half steps for a major scale ( W W 1/2 W W W 1/2). The names of the notes are not important for this exercise.
2. Play different major scale fingerings, getting to know the degree names (numbers 1-7). The scale fingering below is a good starting point.
   

3. Change the following sets of notes to create major scales. Remember that when construction major scales compare two notes at a time to see if they fit the pattern needed. If they do not fit then the second of the two notes must be changed by either raising of lowering it.

note: sharps (#) or flats (b) come before notes in standard notation, but after the letters below.

Page 1, major scale construction